We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.

You only get to keep what you refuse to let go of.

People hurt each other. That's what people do.

We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?

We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in my father's shed were sighing. The sheets were rising and falling around me with Anna's breathing. I thought about waking her. but it was unnecessary. There would be other nights. And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her. Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you... It's always necessary. I love you.

For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

It took me as long as I had known him to get rid of all of his words. Like turning an hourglass over.